Improvement in billiard-tables



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N0.174 ,151. Patented Feb. 29,1876.

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J OHN BECK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ALQNZO D. PEGK,

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IMPROVEMENT lNBlLLlARD-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I74,l5l, dated February 29, 1876; application filed January 12, 1 876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN PEoK, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Billiard-Tables; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the' their playing-spaces bounded-by the cushions rectangular, and generally of a lengthdouble that of the width, in consequence of which a playcr,when on either of the sides of the tahie, was much nearer its center than when at the middle of either end.

in my improved table aplayer has the cen- 101' of the playing-surface always essentially at the same distance from him, whether he be at the middle of one or the other of its sides. Thus with such a table he will often be better able to reach and drive a ball with his cue than he could on a rectangular table when at one end of it.

q The square table also presents other advantages, or is productive of other new results, as it enables a player to gain more or better or truer reflections of a ball than with a rectangular table of the ordinary kind, and, further, he can play quicker and easier, as the balls generally have less distance to travel in being reflected from cushion to cushion.

right angle with each of the two next adjacent ones. The playing-space for the balls thus has a square boundary,

It frequently happens that a room may be more than wide enough, though not of suffieient leugth,for a reetan gular billiard-table of the ordinary kind. In such instance a square table of equal superficial area might be employed, or such room be of suflicient dimensions therefor.

A billiard-table a trifle less than nine feet square would have a superficial area of playin g-suriaee equal to that of a table six feet in width and twelve feet in length. With the square table a playerat the middle of either sidewould be eighteen inches nearer the center than he would be from that of the rectan lar or oblong table, and that with the former new and more beneficial results can be obtained. Therefore,

I cla1m' As an improved article of manufacture, a

billiard-table top in which the playing-surface or hall-space is square, substantially as described and shown.

JOHN PEOK.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

